Slides and Accents

[Darryl]

For Accents, assume just use value of 127 for velocity, but for SLIDES, am I missing something or does there need to be a way to overlap note lengths such that midi will send slide information to my synths?  In particular, looking to get an acid vibe going and can't do so without slides/accents being in their happy place.

If you know what the CC number is that your synth receives slide data on you can make a mod matrix routing that uses any motif pattern as an LFO shape and has that MIDI CC as a destination. Not a perfect solution but a little creativity with this method will provide tons of rewarding experimental results. I don't know for sure if setting the pattern length in the pattern affects it's length as an LFO or not, but I would mess with that and see if I were you. you can also edit the pattern while it's playing for even more interesting results.
Jesse

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Interesting, good stuff thank you.  Doesn’t just overlapping notes result in a slide normally?
The note “off” of the first just needs to wait until the note “on” of the second note so there is an overlap.

I could see this being a simple feature request, just add a “Slide” setting for each step in the rhythm editor, just like the REST and TIE’s?

There's no such thing as a slide in MIDI. Slide is a control voltage function internal to the sound module. Theoretically, one could simulate slide with MIDI by carefully inserting a pitch bend between notes, but it would require some kind of calibration feature to match the synths pitch bend and tuning. Its too complicated to set up, so as far as I know nobody has ever implemented it in a MIDI device. I would love to hear if it has been!

It might be possible to get a synth's Glide to sound like a slide, but The NDLR motifs are strictly monophonic. Its not something a typical mono synth MIDI implementation would handle as far as I know. And a polysynth would just play both notes unless its configured for a unison mode. Assuming the synth will glide on overlapping notes, it would still take some futsing with the glide time to get it to work with the selected BPM and clock div.